The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman [David Cameron] … - Gordon Brown

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Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

Gordon Brown

The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman [David Cameron] may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist. . .

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I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

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To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

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Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

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Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. . . . We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.

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Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

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Benjamin Constant

The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves. . . the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused.

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People's minds are polluted by these dark pictures of the future from Hollywood: "The Terminator," the Skynet, "The Matrix. " It's world where there's no room for humans, or they have to fight against the machines. I think it's just a way, way, way, way in the future. Is it going to happen? I don't know. For me, these debates are not similar, but they resemble debates about how the sun will turn into a supernova in 4 to 5 billion years. Frankly, I don't care.

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